Role: Senior Project Management 12 Month Contract Location: Remote/Once a month onsite in Owings Mills MD
Notes from call with hiring manager: - want someone with front office Asset Management Experience - 8+ years of PM experience - working on an ETF project - project has been underway for over a year, but they are continually adding additional scope. Not starting in the middle of something, working on new projects within the larger project - the program is related to a rollout of ETF's and scaling infrastructure to support the rollout. This person would be supporting and managing 2-3 workstreams (marketing, sales/distribution, investment support) - primarily concerned with how ETF's interact with the trading system and investment support workstream
Build excellent working relationships with teams as required.
Lead and facilitate project discussions and meetings, ensuring they are task oriented and objective driven to ensure the efficient use of everyone's time who are involved.
Escalate risks and issues to the program leadership as appropriate
Support management of project according to established methodology and standards.
Continually update relevant business stakeholders on project status and publish project status reports as and when required.
Represent the project in various project governance and inter-department forums.
Define and track project milestones while developing, maintaining, and reporting on an overall and integrated delivery plan.
Ensure the project meets success parameters and business objectives.
Direct medium and/or support large-scale, complex projects that may involve multiple internal and external stakeholders
Develop the project charter, integrated project plan, resource plan, contingency plan, and related project management artifacts
Evaluate trade-offs between project size and complexity, cost, urgency, risk, and stakeholder value
Partner with business sponsors to define success metrics and criteria
Build, lead, and coach multiple project teams throughout project lifecycles
Facilitate all operational checkpoint activities throughout the lifecycle of projects
Assess and resolve all high priority project risks as they are encountered
QUALIFICATIONS Required
8+ years of Project Management experience
8+ years of experience in Financial Services Industry
Asset Management industry experience
Experience of managing senior sponsors – 4 year minimum
Experience with Microsoft Project, Excel PowerPoint, and SharePoint
Outstanding client relationship management skills
Strong negotiation and influencing skills
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Ability to translate and simplify complex business and technical concepts
Ability to work well with people with varying technical, business, and cultural backgrounds
Comfortable working with executive management
Ability to manage multiple medium and large projects
High level of analytical and problem-solving skills
Experience managing projects in a matrixed environment
Preferred
PMP Certification
Seniority level
Entry level
Employment type
Contract
Job function
Project Management and Information Technology
Industries
IT Services and IT Consulting
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